US diplomatic cables set for imminent release by WikiLeaks will reportedly show that NATO ally Turkey aided Al Qaeda in Iraq, while the US supported the PKK, a Kurdish separatist group fighting Turkey. The claim was made in the London-based...

GENEVA — The number of very poor countries has doubled in the last 30 to 40 years, while the number of people living in extreme poverty has also grown two-fold, a UN think-tank warned Thursday. In its annual report on the 49 least developed...

The Soviet Union couldn’t win in Afghanistan, and now the United States is about to have something in common with that futile campaign: nine years, 50 days. On Friday, the U.S.-led coalition will have been fighting in this South Asian...

A new species of crocodile that lived 100 million years ago has been identified from a fossil found in Thailand, researchers said Thursday. Komsorn Lauprasert, a scientist at Mahasarakham University, said the species had longer legs than...

A Miami man whose beating at the hands of police was captured on cell phone video has been charged with resisting arrest without violence, a charge his lawyer says came from nothing more than the man’s attempts to cover his head from the...

Did judge suggest corrective rape for lesbian soldiers? The conservative news site The Daily Caller has removed part of an article that suggested lesbians be allowed into the US military so that their male colleagues can “convert”...

JERUSALEM — Israeli police were accused of “flagrant violations” of the law Thursday over their harsh and at times violent treatment of Palestinian children suspected of stone-throwing in east Jerusalem. The allegations were detailed...

The Wall Street insider trading investigation may lead everyday investors — already rattled by a stock market meltdown, a one-day “flash crash” and the Madoff scandal — to finally conclude that the game is rigged. “A large part...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said that the United States was “hurting” Thursday as he used a Thanksgiving address to call for support for US troops and cooperation from his rivals in a divided Washington. “This is not...

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh took to airwaves Wednesday to blast President Barack Obama for thanking Native Americans for their part in Thanksgiving. In a Thanksgiving day proclamation on the White House website, Obama declared,...

If it were a question of the George W. Bush maxim “if you’re not with us, you’re against us,” The New Yorker‘s George Packer is against us. In a sprawling, multi-thousand word review of Bush’s new memoir,...

If America hadn’t embraced capitalism, none of us would be alive. And if Democrats were in power, we’d all be starving. Or at least that’s how Fox News reporter John Stossel tells it. In a column published at FoxNews.com on...